Meanwhile...Buffett spends (and bets on) coal for the future with his multi-billion $$$$$$$$ purchase of the BNSF which will desecrate and then export to other countries (above and beyond domestic transportation), thus adding more CO2 to this already fragile environment of OURS!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNSF_Railwayhttp://cenvironment.blogspot.com/2009/11/warren-buffet-cornering-train-and-coal.htmlhttp://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009/11/03/buffett-uses-bnsf-to-bet-on-coal/...and on the subject of said (misnomer) "clean-coal"?
The crème de la crème:
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009/11/03/buffett-uses-bnsf-to-bet-on-coal/Sure, in one respect BNSF might do a good thing via transportation in general along these lines...the bigger question is...just WHAT will be transported?
Lastly, Obama promised to re-install solar panels at the White House by 2011's end...(you might remember...the ones that Carter installed and Reagan later uninstalled) that (literally) did NOT need an act of Congress for Obama to enact, yet he fell short on that, and although it can be viewed as not-so-much a very significant action in the bigger scheme of things...still, it is a tell-tale sign of where his priorities (or rather absence of priorities) lay.